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Lecturer(s)
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Vendra Maria Cristina Clorinda, Mgr. PhD.
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Course content
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Part 1 (Week 1 - Week 4) - The Negative Sense of the Social 1. Introduction: Paul Ricoeurs life and works 2. Paul Ricoeurs social thought and its contemporary relevance 3. The phenomenological gestation of Ricoeurs social thought - Part I: The question of the lived body 4. The phenomenological gestation of Ricoeurs social thought - Part II: The transcedental genesis of intersubjectivity 5. The phenomenological gestation of Ricoeurs social thought - Part III: The body as a primary social structure Part 2 (Week 5 - Week 14) - The Positive Sense of the Social 6. The hermeneutical foundation of Ricoeurs social thought - Part I: Explaining and undestanding the social 7. The hermeneutical foundation of Ricoerus social thought - Part II: Text and social actions 8. The hermeneutical foundation of Ricoeurs social thought - Part III: Social imaginary 9. The hermeneutical foundation of Ricoerus social thought - Part IV: Tradition, authority, critique 10. Ethical and moral foundations of Ricoerus social thought - Part I: The structures of social ethics 11. Ethical and moral foundations of Ricoerus social thought - Part II: Autonomy, vulnerability, and respect 12. Ethical and moral foundations of Ricoeurs social thought - Part III: Just institutions and social justice 13. Collective memory and its social spatialization 14. The challenge of recognition and social cohesion 15. Recapitulation and conclusion: a social thought in the light of hope
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course will be divided into three parts. (1) The first part will be dedicated to the negative sense of the social with reference Ricoeurs early phenomenology of the will. Specifically, it will present the body as a dimension enabling our sociohistorical situatedness into the world. Our existence as corporeal beings is the condition of our openness to the social world and other in it. (2) The second part will introduce Ricoeurs positive sense of the social. First, it will consider the methodological shift from Ricoeurs phenomenological analysis to his hermeneutical approach to the social.
In doing so, the course will provide tools to understand the correlation between hermeneutics and structuralism, the text as a model for interpreting social actions, and the notion of social imaginary. Second, the course will be focused on Ricoerus conception of the ethical principle of reciprocity, his understanding of the meaning of just institutions, his approach to the ambiguity of the notion of justice, as well as on his study of the concept of collective memory and his theory of recognition
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Evalutions of students in this course will be based on: (1) participation, which includes active discussion in class, attendance (80%), class assignments. In case of absence, the student has to communicate it and to ask the professor for any assignments of key discussions concerning the missed lesson. (2) An in-class presentation (15 miuntes) and a final paper (8 pages). Additional information willbe provided at the beginning of the course.
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Recommended literature
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Geoffrey Dierckxsens. Paul Ric?ur?s Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility, and Justice. (Lanham: Lexington Books. 2018.
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Charles Reagan. Paul Ricoeur: His Life and His Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996.
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Paul Ricoeur. Explanation and Understanding, in From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1986.
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Paul Ricoeur. Freedom and Nature. The Voluntary and the Involuntary [1950]. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1966.
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Paul Ricoeur. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology, in From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1986.
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Paul Ricoeur. Oneself as Another. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992.
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Paul Ricoeur. The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text, in From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1986.
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Paul Ricoeur. What is a Text?, in From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics II. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1986.
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